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BRITAIN AND NAZI EXPORTS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (Reuter),—

ocially announced that the 14th In-The British Government has given an carnation of the Dalal Lama will assurance that "in very exceptional cend the Throne with elaborate cere-circumstances" German exports will mony on February 23,

'be allowed to reach their destination.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

REALLY ???

January 5, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

GOODNESS --

I CAN

HARDLY

BELIEVE

IT!

Astronomical Expenditure By Belligerents

CASH COST

OF

WAR

NOW £20,000,000 A DAY

Look Through

The Telegraph

50 YEARS

ACO

Jan. 6, 1800. Victoria English Schools will re-openf an Wednesday next, the 8th instant. The teaching stall in the Boys' Depart- might has been increased by the arrival! Mr. Arthur A. Watts, CM.. of Cheltenham Training College. Miss S. E. Taylor, C.M.. hus been sugaged lo superintend the Girin' Department, which will, in future, be carried on in a reparate bolding at 21, Elgia Street. addition to the ordinary English sub- Jeels there will be cineses for French, Intin, Chinese, Drawing and Singing.

In

25 YEARS AGO

Jan. 5, 1916.

West

Tar damage al Heetlepool in satinated at 150,00 Recruiting in 1 t iliding in particularly active.

10 YEARS ACO

Jan. 5, 1030.

The British Navy will have its full complement of nine aircraft carters in

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WASHINGTON.-Europe's war is costing the bel- ligerents possibly £20,000,000 a day in current cash outlay alone. Additional costs in losses of property, arms, and commercial revenue cannot be computed now.

The £20,000,000 is an estimate 000,000 leaving a defeit of £750,000.- made from the best Information 1000 to be mel by borrowing. available here.

British Dominions and

Colonies:

In a perch before the Instku- Ilon of Production Engineers, Lesile Burgin, Minister of Supply, sald

Canada-A budget of £130,100,000 that his department aloue had spent. about £2,000,000 a day since the was voted in September, to include outbreak of war, an amount which an additional war appropriation of expenditures does not include purchases of £20,000,000. Defence

planes, ships, and other equipment for 1939-40, before the declamation of or the cost of maintenance of the war, had been budgeted at £11,000,- navy or expeditionary force In 000, giving Canada a total of £30,-

000,000 for war.

France.

Australia: The current budget in- Available data indicates that Ger- cludes £21,030,400 for the war, but many, heading the fist, may have additional defence expenditures, as spent £2,500,000,000 for war by the!

New Zealand: The budget for end of its fiscal year next March; yet undisclosed, will be necessary.

Dominions and) Great Britain, I

1939-40 was increased by £1,200,000 colonies, at least £1,050,000,000; und) France, using a calendar year iscal over the previous year, mainly for defence purposes. The Govermanent period, at least £438,000,000 by the also planned to borrow £12,000,000 for a public works programme, which probably could be altered to conform to defence needs. Additional expen- ditures for war purposes have not been disclosed here. available. France:

end of 1938,

The £20,000,000 figure was com- service when ..S. Glorious is pat into puted on the basis that by the end comalssion at Devonport on Tuesday. of March. Germany and the British Empire supposedly will have spent £3,462,000,000 for a war that began The Yer Song Fat building standing 211 days earlier on Sept. 2, or £10 on Queen's Ford Central and having 800,000 En day. By the end or franlages also to D'Aguilar Street and December, 120 days after the start of Wyndham Street is to be demolished hostilities, France spent £138,750,001 almost immediately und h cinema theatre and block of office pro-, or £3,640,000 a day. perty erected on the alte thus cleared.) (This in the King'Ed.)

5 YEARS AGO

modern

Jan. 6, 1935.

There were sonsationis nt the con tinued trial of Bruno Hauptroana, and the crowded court was breathless when Colonel Charles

India and South Africa: No figures

Or

If the French war costs were any- thing lite the £1,000,000,000 appro- That gure does not take Intopriated by the British, the German necount the billions that were spent figure would not seem extraordinary. in years prior to the German-British, The total Allied expenditures then better, fiscal period of 1939-40 and the would be £2,000,000,000 French year of 1939 for arms and against £2,300,000,000 for Germany. ammunition now being expended on

A French Embassy spokesman said, British gure the Western Freni.

that the however, at The process of arriving Lindbergh Identified

would be the greater of the two, A the accused as the man to whom hix £20,000,000 figure is as follows:

search for more detailed information. Intermediary, Condon, paid $50,000 ran-

brought a reply from one official that nom money for the return of the kid- Germany:

"a complete blackcut had fallen on -stapped-Lindbergh-baby,~~-~

Probably no one outside Reichs information intelligible to Ameri- French budget figures. Another said fuhrer Hitler's inner circle knows as ever was available. exactly what Germany is spending for the war,

The abolition of the Sanitary Board and its replacement by an Urban Council is provided for in an Ordin

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However. Herr Hit- Budget proposals for 1930 included national defence Jer has said that war expenditures £125,585,000 for for the past six years would total under the Ministry of the Interior, £7,000,000,000. Thint makes £1.200,- more than third of the budget total, 000,000 a year.

Separate Army and Navy proposals

did not appear in outlines available A decrce of Sept. 22 provided in

herc.

A total of £314,000,000 bas additional £1,200,000,000 for the 1939-40 Ascul period ending March been voted in war credits since hot-

tilities started. 31. That makes an aggregate of

The two figures above give the £2,400,000,000 being currently spent. Some observers say that Agure is that seems slight for a Nation awar £430,758,000 total used here, a total ridiculous. That no figure could give when Ainerican statesmen are talk- the whole pleture for Germany, -ing of £400,000,000 for 1940 defence asinuch as its entire economy has

been geared to its military abns for appropriations,

years. Cash outlay is merely for 1040, its total will draw nearer When France votes more money

cost fnetor.

the British figure, which covers three.

1939.

OUR GUIDE TO

In order to meet the war's costs, months In 1840, as well as nhe in Germany not only increased taxes, reduced nohnilitary expenditures by| 50 per cent and undertook short- teri borrowing, but according to Information here, it also lowered wages and prices, thereby reducing) the cost of war supplies to the Gov- ernment.

THE CINEMAS

“Rulers of the Sen" (Alhambra): A tale of sailing ships versus the fient Main tax increases were; A 50 ship to cross the North Atlantic under per cent rise in the rate on Incomes, steam. Will Fyfe, Scots comedian, over £102, a 20 per cent surtax on dominates the film with his charac

terinotion of the bibulous old Scots tobacco, beer, liquor, and champagne, mechanic who (according to this story); and a 15 per cent levy on the obstes) invented ʼn marina ongiña In his back- of states and communen in national yard and faced jears and grievous die- appointment an its necount a little ever a hundred years ago. Douglas Fair.. banks, Jun., appears as the rebellla mata of a sailing ship who accompanies Will Fyffe home one night with fateful results. Director Frank Lloyd's storm scenes are magnificent.

revenues,

The press cstimated that the new £400,000,000 a taxes would yield yeur, giving total revenues for 1939

of £1,700,000,000, as agalrat £1,372,000,000 last year.

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"The Cat and the Canary" (Queen's) :

Plante

Those estimates, if accurate, do not, A Paramount re-make of the allent lend credence to the enonious size thriller in which. Laura

of Germany's reported war expend makes a good Jals of the nervous hero Kiarred several years ago. Rab Hope tures, unless the Government is whiint Paulette Goddard reveals genuine blithely incurring deficits of enorm-neting ability.

ous proportions.

Great Britain:

"Censt Guard" (Matentic); Dramatic story of lady-kling aerial constguard "ace" who marries his friend's girl, fall to places when she leaves blm ant

Britain publishes understandable; redeems himself by saving same friend's e. Starrlog Handolph Scott, Frances | budgets. She estimated in Apt Dee and Ralph Bellamy.

that she would need £1,052,770,000 "Giels on Probaitan" (Oriental)! for the 1938-48 year beginning April] Tragis atory of prison probellonaty

system's part in saving a young, r porelatantly nud, wrongly accuard, who

1, nearly half of it for defence.

By the time the war got under alt fats the law against the real way, the estimates had been boosted offenders. Excellent performance by

to £1,546,304,000, including £00%. Jano Bryan In leading role. 010,000 for the war still less than kait| the estimated German total. Thaj budget then was nearly double_1038-| 39 expenditures.

OLD SCREENS WANTED

The Emergency First Aid Post ro- Income rates were raised to 35 per quire donations of old screens and These should be cent, with 37% In prospect for 1940- acrew-top bottles. 41. A new excess profits levy re-sent to, the Women's Air Haid Pre- placed the rational defence and cautions Office, Colonial Secretariat. armament lax, and other favles, The Bandaging Class at the Helena especially on xurles, were boosted. May Institute will re-open on Janu-

Revenue allmates rose to £700,-Jary 10 from 0.30 a.m.

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